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and other basic life skills. Out of these 79 women and children served, 54 or 68% exited to safe and stable permanent housing. Davis Street Family Resource Center (Davis Street) “Basic Needs” Program: The CDBG funded Davis Street’s Family Support Services Program provides “Basic Needs” services, including emergency food and clothing and other family support services such as medical/dental services, employment counseling, and housing assistance to low-income and working poor individuals and families. For FY 2018-2019, Davis Street provides support to 5,442 total unduplicated persons, of which 4,039 (or 79%) were San Leandro residents. Davis Street provided grocery bags to clients with the food equivalent of 45,648 meals. Helping low-income individuals and families avoid becoming homeless, especially extremely low-income individuals and families and those who are: likely to become homeless after being discharged from publicly funded institutions and systems of care (such as health care facilities, mental health facilities, foster care and other youth facilities, and corrections programs and institutions); and, receiving assistance from public or private agencies that address housing, health, social services, employment, education, or youth needs The Continuum is working with a number of publicly funded institutions of care to ensure that persons are not discharged into homelessness. The realignment housing program has housing specialists work with persons in the County jail on their housing needs prior to their release date and is funded by Alameda County Probation Department to rapidly rehouse those who are or could become homeless. It also participated actively in the Youth Transitions Planning partnership funded by Health and Human services (HHS) to ensure that no transitional age youth aging out of foster care exits to homelessness. The partnership works to coordinate the foster care and McKinney funded housing resources to ensure youth do not fall out of housing. Davis Street Family Resource Center (Davis Street) - Affordable Housing Services: In FY 2018-2019, the City provided General Funds to Davis Street to assist individuals seeking housing, including permanent housing. During the fiscal year, Davis Street served 797 clients, of which 20 households were placed into permanent housing, 2 clients were assisted with security deposits, 1 client was assisted with past-due rent. Davis Street also provided 199 homeless or individuals at risk of becoming homeless with information on services to assist with their housing search and local shelter information. Additionally, Davis Street encourages homeless or those at-risk of homelessness to participate in their housing assistance and wrap-around programs such as accessing their Primary Health Care Clinic, Couseling Services, Dental Programs, Medi-Cal and Cal-Fresh application assistance. Davis Street also assists clients with obtaining credit scores thorugh Credit Karma and Credit Sesame so that they are aware of what landlords are seeing when they apply for housing. Davis Street also assists clients with establishing a rental portfolio to make sure that they have copies of all materials needed to apply for housing such as ID’s, credit reports, contact information and referrals from past landlords. Finally, Davis Street has a budget calculator tool to assist clients with understanding how much they are spending and where they City of San Leandro FY 2018-19 CAPER 16 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018)